Stop blaming unvaccinated

After two years of trying to seduce and control COVID-19, what have we learned? A sign of insanity is to repeat the same process and expect different results.

Two years later,we have this scenario, we lock down tighter, more restrictions yet the results are non-effective, so we blame the unvaccinated for our hospital numbers.

Quoting columnist David Bond in Tuesday’s paper, he states: “The second and more difficult issue is the non-vaccinated population. Their irresponsible behaviour has pushed the health-care system to its limits and beyond.”

Really? Let us take a look at who is in the hospital filling up the COVID beds. An Ontario report on Jan. 14 stated the majority of people in Ontario hospitals with COVID-19 diagnosis were fully jabbed. According to the Ontario data, there were 185 fully vaccinated people in the intensive care units and 168 unvaccinated people with COVID-19. There were 2,035 fully vaccinated people in hospital with COVID, excluding the ICU, compared to 686 unvaccinated.

So from this report from Ontario, on Jan. 14, there were more people in the hospital who had been double vaccinated.

So the question is why do we continue to pick on the unvaccinated, when the stats show it is the double vaccinated that are filling Ontario hospitals.

Or check the stats of cases in Vermont versus Montana.

I believe we should treat people like with dignity and respect for their choices. As it turns out two years later we have no control of the of the virus, and to blame the unvaccinated is beneath human dignity, when the above information shows a different story.

Larry Shipowick, Kelowna